Apple rejecting iOS apps that use Dropbox SDK

Developers using the software development kit of cloud storage vendor Dropbox are having their iOS apps rejected by at Apple.

According to Dropbox, Apple is rejecting the apps because the SDK includes a “Desktop version” of its website for creating accounts that could allow users to purchase additional storage space outside of the app.

“Apple is rejecting apps that use the Dropbox SDK because we allow users to create accounts. We’re working with Apple to come up with a solution that still provides an elegant user experience,” Dropbox said in a statement yesterday.

A Dropbox user identified as Goran Daemon P. wrote that the reason Apple rejected his iOS app was that “the user does not have [the] Dropbox application installed [so] then the linking authorization is done through Safari (as per latest SDK).”

“Once the user is in Safari, it is possible for the user to click ‘Desktop version’ and navigate to a place on Dropbox’s site where it is possible to purchase additional space,” he wrote. “Apple views this as ‘sending user to an additional purchase’ which is against rules.”